Modern Express News (Reporter Cai Mengying text/photo) "The purchase price of Xinjiang prune group is 9.8 yuan/jin" and "the internal price of prune group is 9.9 yuan/jin"...... If you add a few fruit store group buying groups, you can find that prunes have been getting cheaper and cheaper recently. On October 5, a reporter from Modern Express visited and learned that the price of prunes in many affordable fruit supermarkets has dropped to below 10 yuan per catty, and the price of larger boutique prunes is basically about 15 yuan per catty.
This once "expensive" fruit has been a lot cheaper, whether it is a fruit store in the streets and alleys, or a major supermarket, you can easily see the figure of prunes. In a fruit supermarket near Changhong Road, prunes with bright and moving colors and round plump are placed in eye-catching positions in the store. The clerk warmly greeted customers to try it, and the reporter also tasted it, the flesh was moderately sweet and sour, and the juice was rich. The price of prunes in this store is 15 yuan per box, and one pound per box. According to the store manager, it is still the season for prunes to be marketed in large quantities, and the price is much cheaper than before the market. The store manager told reporters: "When it first went on the market, it cost more than 30 pounds, and there were few people who bought it in a cheap store like ours, so we basically didn't buy it." "In a cheap fruit store near Laohuqiao, the price of Xinjiang Jiashi prunes is 9.9 yuan per catty, and there are many customers passing by to buy prunes. Another high-quality prune in the store is larger, and the price is 12.8 yuan per catty. In front of a boutique fruit shop near the Red Temple, there are 3 boxes of prunes. Seeing that some customers were interested, the store manager was also trying his best to promote: "The last few boxes, if you want, 9.8 yuan a pound will be weighed for you." ”
Prunes are known as the "terminator of constipation". In addition to being delicious, many people eat prunes for their "laxative" effect. Why do prunes have diarrhea when they eat too much? This is related to the fact that prunes contain sorbitol. Li Yuanyuan, one of the first batch of registered dietitians in China and a master of nutrition, told the Modern Express reporter that the human body has a relatively low threshold for sorbitol diarrhea and is more likely to cause diarrhea. However, the actual situation is that the content of sorbitol in prunes varies greatly, with the content ranging from 1 to 5 grams per 100 grams, coupled with the large difference in sensitivity of different people, if the stomach and intestines are fragile and there is irritable bowel syndrome, it may be more likely to have symptoms.
Can prunes be used to treat constipation? Li Yuanyuan believes that if the symptoms are not too serious or if you are in the early stage of constipation, you can eat it. If you happen to buy prunes with good sorbitol content, coupled with their low tolerance, they may have a certain effect. Li Yuanyuan gave an example to reporters: "It's okay for our neighbor's children to eat more than 10, but my sensitive type is much more effective." ”
Wang Silu, a member of the Chinese Nutrition Society, an expert in food safety science popularization, and a national senior food inspector, also believes that some data say that every 100 grams of fresh prunes contain an average of 2.6 grams of sorbitol. If you ingest more than 5 grams of sorbitol at one time, the body will begin to react accordingly, and when you ingest more than 10 grams at one time, you will have obvious diarrhea symptoms. Wang Silu told the Modern Express reporter that theoretically, eating about 400 grams of prunes at a time can promote bowel movements. He also reminded the public that different people have different reactions to sorbitol laxatives, and the consumption of prunes can only temporarily relieve the symptoms of constipation, but cannot cure constipation once and for all.